Toyota Gazoo Racing is softening us up ahead of the local GR Yaris launch
The biggest new car launch this year is of a supercar. Plausibly the smallest and most affordable supercar yet, And Toyota South Africa has started rolling out its hugely anticipated GR Yaris in the first of five teaser videos as Gazoo Racing South Africa pilot Michael van Rooyen gets to grips with the little car that’s set to reshape the performance car landscape as we know it…
WRC INSPIRED
The World Rally Championship (where a GR Yaris won again in Corsica over the weekend)-inspired superhatch pocket rocket has already reset the international motoring media rulebook. Its combination of driver-configurable all-wheel drive, its giant-killing turbocharged three-pot engine, retro’ H-pattern stick shift and analogue driving dynamics has already wowed even the harshest of wags around the world.
Now this first of five videos below is designed to whet South African appetites. Join the Rustenburg Rocket Michael van Rooyen as he swaps his Gazoo Racing Corolla Global Touring Car for a taste of the GR Yaris where he recently won at Port Elizabeth’s Aldo Scribante Raceway…
WATCH THE VIDEO HERE
